Comments on: Julia Child’s Italian Tour: Angering Chefs and Riding on Motorcycles

By: Teddy

Teddy — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:51:06 +0000

She was really quite a character. Let’s not forget that the Italias taught the French how to cook !The two cuisines can be very similar.Italy and France and Italy are neighbors,and both are Mediterranean countries.The culture,food,language,wine and people are intertwined significantly.Today, Italian cuisine has replaced French cuisine as the most respected and sought after culinary experience. Thank GOD for that !

By: Jack Daren

Jack Daren — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:50:59 +0000

Mohan
First of all, let me say that in Italy nobody knows Julia Child. She s famous in the US, maybe in France but ignored in most of the EU. About the Italian chefs and their ”murderous stare”, they considered her just as an ill-bred tourist. She couldn’t enter the kitchen, play with the food or taste the sauce with her fingers. It was a rude beahvior. If you did something like that in Japan, Great Britain or Spain, they would throw you out the restaurant.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:29:12 +0000

Julia used to express disdain for Italian food. “The food didn’t strike me as anything special, either; it didn’t have much finesse,” she wrote as late as 2006 about a trip in the 40s. That would bring a reproachful, murderous stare from any Italian chef!

By: susie

susie — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:58:28 +0000

wishing I could be there for that reading…looking forward to this read for the fall. Auguri Julia!

By: Mona Christine

Mona Christine — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:33:43 +0000

I am sorry to have to correct Spitz;right in front of my eyes watching one of Julia’s cooking Class on television, she dropped a piece of steak and said : oops just remember you are the only person in the kitchen.